After several days of filming in Worcester, Mass., David O. Russell‘s Silver Linings Playbook follow-up, American Hustle, returned to Boston Wednesday night to resume shooting, but today’s scheduled scenes were canceled as the entire city went into lockdown while authorities pursued a suspect in Monday’s Marathon bombings following a nighttime chase and firefight that resulted in the deaths of a police officer and a second suspect, and the wounding of another officer.

The story of a real-life childhood game of tag that has lasted among 10 friends for decades into adulthood – and that was profiled in a January Wall Street Journal story – is the inspiration for Tag Brothers, a just-announced comedy from New Line Cinema to star Jack Black and Will Ferrell. Or, will star them depending on how they feel about the finished script. And that script is currently being written byMark Steilen, best known as a second unit director on Hall Pass and The Three Stooges. But his resume also includes writing a TV movie called The Pooch and the Pauper (and yes, it’s exactly what you think it is), directing a movie called Weiners and writing and directing the 1999 film The Settlement, a comedy about a health insurance company striking it rich during the AIDS crisis. So maybe don’t count on Black and Farrell after all, K?

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Critics might not have been wowed by Robert Pattinson in David Cronenberg‘s Cosmopolis, but the director certainly was. He’s reteaming with Pattinson on his a next project, Maps to the Stars, an L.A.-based ghost story that also serves as a critique on fame and the obsession with celebrity. Sounds about right. That flick has also just added Julianne Moore and John Cusack.

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Hard to believe, but no John Hughes film has ever been remade – save forUncle Bun, a 1991 Indian remake of 1989′s Uncle Buck – and the first one to achieve that dubious honor is … Weird Science. That 1985 comedy about two teenage geeks who get their best Frankenstein on and create a monster of a perfect woman starred Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, Kelly “Don’t hate me because I was once married to Steven Seagal” LeBrock, Robert Downey Jr. and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. Original producer Joel Silver will fill the same role on a proposes Universal redo and he promises a harder edge. Not hard to do when the scripter attached is Michael Bacall whose 2012 work included the party film Project X and the big screen reboot of 21 Jump Street.

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Speaking of 21 Jump Street, both Jonah Hill andChanning Tatum are expected to reprise their roles as twentysomething cops going undercover as high school students in a 2014 sequel just announced by Sony. That’s just the official word; the success of the action comedy – $138 million at the U.S. box office, $201 worldwide (which makes it the top film in the High School Movie genre if you’re keeping track) – and its critical success – an 85 percent approval rating (90 percent if you narrow it to “top” critics) on Rotten Tomatoes – made a sequel inevitable. And story writers Hill and Bacall were tentatively signed for a second film before the first was even released.